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Skytte Prize Laureates

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Martha Finnemore and Alexander Wendt

2023

The prize committee’s citation for awarding the Johan Skytte Prize to Martha Finnemore and Alexander Wendt reads as follows: “For having formulated and empirically demonstrated the fruitfulness of constructivism, thus renewing and deepening the understanding of international politics.”

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Peter J. Katzenstein

2020

Peter J. Katzenstein is awarded the prize for: furthering the understanding of how history, culture, and norms shape economies, as well as national and global security policy.

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Amartya Sen

2017

This year’s Prize was awarded to Professor Amartya Sen for his lifelong achievement that “combines insights into human vulnerability with knowledge about the potential of democratic political power to redress and relieve this deprivation.”

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David Collier

2014

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Ronald F. Inglehart and Pippa Norris

2011

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Rein Taagepera

2008

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Robert Owen Keohane

2005

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Sidney Verba

2002

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Elinor Claire Ostrom

1999

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Juan José Linz

1996

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Robert E. Goodin

2022

Robert E. Goodin is awarded the prize for an impressive volume of work in which he “with acuity and success endeavored to blend political philosophy with empirical political science to increase the understanding of how decent and dignified societies can be shaped.”

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Margaret Levi

2019

Professor Margaret Levi at Stanford University and University of Washington is awarded the prize for: "having laid the foundations of our understanding of why citizens accept state coercion, by combining theoretical acumen and historical knowledge."

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Jon Elster

2016

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Robert Axelrod

2013

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Adam Przeworski

2010

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Theda Skocpol

2007

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Jean Blondel

2004

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Brian Barry

2001

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Alexander L George

1998

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Robert Alan Dahl

1995

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David D. Laitin

2021

David D. Laitin is awarded the prize for his “original and objective explanation of how politics shapes cultural strategies in heterogeneous societies.”

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Jane Mansbridge

2018

Jane Mansbridge, Charles F. Adams Professor in Political Leadership and Democratic Values at Harvard University, is awarded the 2018 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science for “having shaped our understanding of democracy in its direct and representative forms, with incisiveness, deep commitment and feminist theoy.”

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Francis Fukuyama

2015

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Caroline Pateman

2012

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Philippe C. Schmitter

2009

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Robert David Putnam

2006

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Hanna Fenichel Pitkin

2003

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Fritz W. Scharpf

2000

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Arend d'Angremond Lijphart

1997

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